Kate Klise
Author
Series
43 Old Cemetery Road volume 1
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 2
Description
In this story told mostly through letters, children's book author I. B. Grumply gets more than he bargained for when he rents a quiet place to write for the summer.
4) Homesick
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 5
Description
When his parents separate, Benny's father begins hoarding, cluttering the house, and growing more distant.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Larry does not like it when his loud, flashy grandmother comes to visit, especially when she talks about taking him to Tanzania or the South Seas one day, but after a huge summer storm damages their home and valley, he sees another side of Grammy Lamby.
Author
Series
43 Old Cemetery Road volume 2
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 2
Description
In this story told mostly through letters, busybody Dick Tater tries to ban Halloween and ghost stories, as well as to break up the popular writing team of I. B. Grumply, ghost Olive C. Spence, and eleven-year-old illustrator Seymour Hope.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 7
Description
In this illustrated novel told through journal entries, news clippings, and letters, twelve-year-old Lily finds herself on the jury of a murder trial while conducting her own undercover investigation of the case.
Author
Series
Regarding the volume 3
Publisher
Harcourt Inc
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 3
Description
In this story told primarily through letters, Principal Russ wants the middle school trees to be trimmed before his administrative evaluation, but the project is interrupted by a town gender war, dueling chefs, student tree protests, and a surprise wedding.
Author
Series
Three-ring rascals volume 2
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Description
As the performers in Sir Sidney's circus discover that friendship and teamwork are more important than winning a trophy for The Greatest Star on Earth, circus mice Bert and Gert write a book on how to be kind for rotten ringmaster-in-training Barnabas Brambles to read.
12) Far from Normal
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
Description
When Charles Harrisong's book about his family's life in Normal, Illinois, is made into a major motion picture, the family is catapulted to instant fame.
Author
Series
43 Old Cemetery Road volume 7
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Twelve-year-old Seymour Hope and his ghostly "mother" Olive go to Scotland to claim a castle inherited from Ignatius Grumply's punster uncle, Ian, but while they tend an aged tortoise and face an unscrupulous developer, Iggie deals with Ian's ghost and an inept insurance agent.
Author
Series
Three-ring rascals volume 3
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Many surprises are in store when Miss Flora Endora Eliza LaBuena LaPasta invites Sir Sidney's Circus to travel and perform aboard her elegant ship, the SS Spaghetti.
Author
Series
43 Old Cemetery Road volume 6
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2014].
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
Description
"The unsuspecting trio at Spence Mansion starts a greeting card company--and winds up on the adventure of a lifetime!"--
Author
Series
43 Old Cemetery Road volume 5
Publisher
Harcourt, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
Description
When film producer Moe Block Busters offers to make their book into a movie, Iggy, Olive, and Seymour head to Hollywood where Olive, furious at being written out of the script, enlists the help of a famed femme fatale to scare the despicable director half to death.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Description
With a mother who buys Christmas cards in August and a younger brother who describes the Trinity as a toasted marshmallow on a graham cracker, life for eleven-year-old Charles Harrisong is anything but normal in Normal, Illinois.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A fictionalized biography of Ella Kate Ewing, born in 1872, who was eight feet tall by the age of seventeen and who became financially independent by traveling the country for nearly twenty years appearing at museums, exhibitions, and in circus shows.